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Students ready for auto body career – with a surprise gift of required tools
Three students in the auto body program at Salem’s Career Technical Education Center recently got a surprising boost to launch their professional careers. Daniel Mendoza, Julian Moran and Eddie Ceja were awarded a prestigious national scholarship that gave them each $1,000 worth of tools and a tool box. They also recently got a trip to the national Collision Industry Conference in Palm Springs, California, where they were recognized on stage before 500 professionals. The seniors are in their second year of the auto body repair and painting program, part of the Salem-Keizer School District’s constellation of training programs that prepare students for a variety of careers. Alex Crays, the auto…
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Auto Repair & Body Shop Technician Expert Product Buyer’s Guides Released
Push Launch Released April 5, 2023
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Auto Body Shop Financials: Breakeven Point and Beyond
This article is the fourth in a series on accounting. To view the rest of the series: Part 1, click here. Part 2, click here. Part 3, click here. One of the most valuable things in any collision repair business is for ownership and management to have an accurate understanding of their financial performance. In this series, we’ve elaborated on that key point and broken down the ins and outs of the profit and loss (P&L) statement as well as given insight into industry standards on the structure of how that P&L should look. We’ve given recommendations for an easier month-end process with regards to financial statements and how to…
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Main Street Auto Body open for business; new 10,000 square-foot shop set for groundbreaking soon at Fenn | Business
FENN — When Mike Hauger and Casey Zechmann first met, they were happily surprised to find they had a lot in common. Those common interests led to a partnership that has manifested itself into the business “Main Street Auto Body,” and continues to grow. The duo opened their business this year, utilizing Hauger’s home and farm shop. That will change this spring when they build a new 10,000-square-foot shop that will include a state-of-the-art paint bay. This will be located in Fenn on property that is owned by Hauger. “We think this will be the perfect location to serve all our communities,” they agreed, as it will be centrally located…
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Outlook 2023: This Springfield auto body shop is probably best known for its billboards
Great customer service and a special guarantee on workmanship for the life of a car fueled the popularity and growth of Rick’s Auto Body in Springfield over the years. But, it was a sharp wit that also proved a stellar marketing tool for Raymond “Rick” Recor. The owner’s warranty and wordsmithing began in the mid-1990s. Recor was working out of a shop on Verge Street then and was embroiled in conflict with insurance providers over reimbursements. His response to the conflict was the creation of one hand-painted billboard. It featured a blue 1957 Chevrolet with the words, “Classic Quality. Lifetime Warranty.” Recor also ran a full-page advertisement in the Sunday…
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Meet the Auto Body Instructor: Michael Bonsanto
Michael Bonsanto is one of the collision repair instructors at Passaic County Complex Institute (PCTI) found in Wayne, N.J. He commenced his instructing job in 2017 at 52 decades outdated. He calls this option his second possibility to do a little something that issues for the industry he enjoys. Instructing is not new to Bonsanto, even if higher university lifestyle is. He has been an active I-Auto instructor for 13 yrs, focusing on welding and the Arms-On Expertise Enhancement lessons delivered in stores in his spot. Bonsanto started off his profession in an automobile physique shop, expending 15 many years there ahead of transferring on to develop into an appraiser…
